Honorary Researchers

Emeritus Professor Don Schauder

Dr Livia Iacovino

Livia is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow and a Principal Researcher in the Records Continuum Research Group, in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. She has taught in the recordkeeping courses of the Faculty, and developed the legal and ethical curricula. Her research is focused on interdisciplinary perspectives of archival science, law and ethics; in particular ownership, access and privacy of networked electronic records. Livia has collaborated internationally as a Co-Chair of the Policy Research Group, International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) Project, and as a consultant with the International Records Management Trust. She has been a Chief Investigator, for Electronic Health Records: Achieving an Effective and Ethical Legal and Recordkeeping Framework, an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, together with the Faculty of Law, Monash University and the School of Law , Deakin University. Livia's awards include the Australian Society of Archivists Mander Jones Award 1999, and the Monash University Mollie Holman Medal of Excellence 2003 for her PhD thesis published in 2006 as, Recordkeeping, Ethics and Law: Regulatory Models, Participant Relationships and Rights and Responsibilities in the Online World.

Professor Eric Ketelaar

Eric is Professor of Archivistics (Archival Science) in the Department of Mediastudies (Archive and Information Studies) of the University of Amsterdam (since 1997). He is currently serving as Acting Head of the Department of Mediastudies. He is a Honorary Professor at Monash University, Melbourne (Faculty of Information Technology). Educated as a lawyer and legal historian, he received his LLM (1967) and LLD (cum laude) degrees from Leiden University. His previous functions were Assistant Lecturer of Legal History at Leiden University, Secretary of the Archives Council, Director of the Dutch State School of Archivists, and Assistant to the General State Archivist. In 1980 he was appointed Deputy General State Archivist. Four years later he moved to Groningen to become State Archivist of that province. He was General State Archivist (National Archivist) of The Netherlands from 1989-1997. From 1997-2001 he was part-time Inspector General of the State Archives Service of the Netherlands and subsequently General Counsel to the National Archivist. From 1992-2002 he held the chair of archivistics in the Department of History of the University of Leiden. He has served the International Council on Archives (ICA) in different capacities over a period of twenty years and in 2000 ICA elected him Honorary President.

Professor Rudy Hirschheim

Rudy Hirschheim is the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department of the EJ Ourso College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University. Previous to this position he was the Tenneco/Chase International Professor of Information Systems in the Bauer College of Business and Director of the Information Systems Research Centre (1989-1997) at the University of Houston, Texas. He has also previously been a member of the faculties of McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London and Templeton College, Oxford University. He received his Doctorate in 1985 from the University of London. Professor Hirschheim is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information and Organizations (formerly Accounting, Management and Information Technologies), Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems and the Journal of Information Technology, and has previously been on the boards of the European Journal of Information Systems and MIS Quarterly. His research interests include: the managerial and organizational aspects of new information technology; systems development methodologies; social impacts of information technology; philosophical issues of information systems research; and the evolution and management of the information systems function with recent focus on the sourcing of the information systems function.

Mr Frank Upward